Military officials are searching a vast swath of ocean for a U.S. Marine who went missing last week from a San Diego-based amphibious transport dock ship during naval training off the Southern California coast, a Navy spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The search started just after 1:20 a.m. Thursday when the Marine was reported missing, the Navy said in a news release Saturday evening. The release said several military agencies \u2014 Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard \u2014 took part in a 43-hour search that spanned about 2,400 miles. The team included three ships and 12 aircraft.<\/p>\n
The Navy said search and rescue efforts transitioned to search and recovery operations at 9 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
The Marine was serving aboard the USS Anchorage during a training operation between the San Diego-based Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.<\/p>\n
Military officials did not say why or how the Marine may have gone overboard. The Marine\u2019s name will not be released until 24 hours after family members are notified.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the family and all who are affected during this difficult time,\u201d the Navy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military officials are searching a vast swath of ocean for a U.S. Marine who went missing last week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4846,7,9,8,1531,138,181,1703,3247,1338,100],"class_list":["post-379563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-accidents","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-military","tag-missing-persons","tag-morning-wire","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}